Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway have a look at page fifty six cos I promised you yesterday that I would take you through the verb if you were you know the things you would want to know about . |
| 2 | I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car . |
| 3 | ‘ The producers told me later that I got the job because of the winning chemistry between us — and that Pauline had put in a good word for me . |
| 4 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 5 | I told him simply that I had felt ill at a very unfortunate moment . |
| 6 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 7 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |
| 8 | It amused him too that I used only pins to mount most of the items on the card . |
| 9 | Coupled with ‘ God ’ went something else that I could never find , and which was much talked about . |
| 10 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 11 | But sheer sensation — the warmth of the sun , the scent of the air , the mundane pleasure of tea and biscuits — simple well-being possessed me so that I could only feel , not think . |
| 12 | had something else that I was just doing and I thought Oh I should be at Ian 's for five o'clock . |